Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Tymoshenko and Yushchenko

Yulya Tymoshenko's speech, as she talks on the Maidan, relayed by this blog:
Tomorrow we will go to the supreme court though we know that the court is not fair. we will try to convince them to be just. But we also know that trying to work legally with people don't recognize the law is truely impossible.

we must start first battles. we will battle to the end

last night when we passed the barriers into the Presidential Administration and we saw what is happening there. We got infornmation from the officers there. there are not only Ukrainians. there are soldiers of another country dressed in Ukrainian uniforms. But the foreign soldiers will shoot if there are more than 50 people coming in. The Ukrainians said they will not shot.

But last night we knew if we brought the people in there, we knew what will happen.

We must now plan concretely. we will block roads, railroads, airports and will not let them destroy or country


We do not want to lose a single Ukrainian life.


Also, Yushchenko calls for a general strike.

1 comment:

Micajah said...

The situation in Ukraine makes the election disputes in the U.S. seem like child's play.

Colin Powell made clear that the U.S. government believes the election result being reported isn't legitimate, according to the New York Times.

Not good. Not good at all. Could Putin's Russia really be so intent on maintaining or rebuilding the former "sphere of influence" of Russia that they would use force to make sure a stolen election stays stolen?

Having recently made the Europeans happy by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, thereby getting some kind of assurance regarding entry into the WTO, is Russia risking the loss of that deal--if not more?

What is so threatening to Russia about having Ukraine's president be someone who wants closer ties to the west rather than with Russia?